forks throws pottery (and maybe you do too?) - An ILX Ceramics Thread

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182 White Clay. Oxidation.
Glazing: Reitz Green, wax accents.

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3 1/4 inches diameter at rim, 3 1/2 inches diameter at base, @ 6 1/2 inches with handle, 4 1/2 inches tall.

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The exposed snaking ivy shapes are achieved by applying wax to the bisque-fired clay prior to glazing. The glaze runs off the wax and, after the piece is fired, the wax vaporizes to leave exposed stoneware.

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Not quite elegant but quite functional for both hot and cold drinks.

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182 White Clay. Oxidation.
Glazing: Carmine's Turquoise with Cushing Red accents.
5 3/4 inches diameter at rim, 4 inches diameter at eating area, 3 3/4 inches diameter at base, 1 1/4 inches tall.

Well, sometimes it just doesn't work out. This was an attempt at making a gunmetal grey plate with red discs of color in varying size. Instead, the glaze puddled into weird granulated beads and the red pools leached green color from the bottom glaze. It's a bit of a shame in that I was happy with the throwing. It happens.

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The next step for me is at a studio in Queens that I put a week of work in at. They're back open mid January and able to accommodate extended throwing time of four to five hours at a sitting in midday. This first headed-to-bisque batch is the result of twelve hours of work... maybe twenty finished pieces and seven worth keeping. The clay is different, the glazes are different, the space and tools are different. It's all pretty exciting to try totally new things and to have the time to stretch out and throw and throw and throw and throw... the impression I've got at this point is that the only way to get better is to keep making work until I make a couple thousand pieces and then I'll be a reasonable potter. I'm at about a hundred pieces now. Best to get hustling.

Tumblr isn't really anything more for me than an image hosting spot EZ; the only people I give a damn about looking at this stuff are Facebook/ILXors.

totally cool.

182 White Clay with etched black slip & the randy's oribe one are so so nice

Thanks! I'm happy with both those combinations as well and would like to make a few more in the same vein.

these are all really beautiful, forks

wow, forks! such nice work!
i really like the crosshatched one and the orange+teal bowl too

latest batch from my new studio; mostly just figuring out the new glazes and getting used to the house clay and exploring. I'm enrolled for the next month. Been putting in about twelve hours a week throwing this month, same for Feb I hope.

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Bowl. Denton Green glaze. 5 1/4 inch wide at rim. 3 inches tall. 3 1/2 inches wide at foot.
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Decorative urn. Faux Celadon glaze. 3 1/2 inches tall. 4 1/2 inches wide at lip. 3 1/2 inches wide at foot.

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Teacup with graduated bottom. Oribe glaze over Cornwall glaze.
3 1/4 inches tall. 4 inches wide at lip. 2 3/4 wide at foot.
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Vase. French Green glaze over Gloss White glaze.
5 inches tall. 3 3/4 inches wide at rim. 2 3/4 inches wide at foot.
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Sake cup. Tenmoku glaze. 2 1/2 inches tall. 3 3/4 inches at rim. 3 inches at foot.

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Teacup with flared bottom. Gloss White glaze over Albany Green slip.
2 1/2 inches tall. 3 3/4 inches wide at rim. 2 3/4 inches wide at foot.
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I have about thirteen pieces trimmed and ready for some detail work at my NJ studio, five pieces fired and ready to glaze in queens and another eight pieces that need trimming in queens. Lotta work in progress.

Each batch gets more impressive. Again, kudos.

Thanks! These are very much experiments (as a batch) in getting used to new circumstances... going to a new studio is a little like attending a new church. Very disorienting and challenging but it's more or less the same god to please.
i'm hoping to up to around thirty hours a week this month as I have little work coming in till march and have budgeted with that in mind. hopefully it won't bite me in the ass later.

okay, this is ridiculous but i'm weirdly proud of it. lotta carving and painting on of clay slip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmjEp3Fc-E4

oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh! Can you make me a pair? Seriously.

awesome!

make me an offer! This one already has a home but I can make more that are similar on consignment.

You have my email, so send me a quote and I'll let you know if it works. I have no idea where to start so I'm putting it in your court.

hm. let me think on it; i'm not sure how i would charge? Or what I would do about mailing?
may be a future thing.

I have no clue either! I was thinking of Christmas presents so seriously no hurry. MAybe you can talk to some of the people in class or the teachers/artists that are around about pricing, packaging, etc.

personal delivery: you walk it to his house, holding it v carefully

I'll start a kickstarter to fund "forks walks to Texas" .

forksclovetexas

heh.

disney is going to come down hard on this transaction

shhhh

you just don't get it, do you? the mouse has eyes and ears everywhere. there's no keeping secrets from the mouse.

yeah well TALKING ABOUT IT isn't going to help

do you WANT forks to go to mouse prison?

Now I'm picturing forks as one of the Beagle Boys. Which is kind of awesome.

there is some resemblance, yes.

It's the hat.

i'm trying to do a set of these things with minor/obscure/meaningful/not heavily toyetic cartoon characters to
1)get better at throwing this size/shape consistently and with a thick wall.
2)practice my carving skills
3)test out all the glaze colors at the new studio I'm at by brushing them on as the background for the character
4)create things that people aren't just happy to be given but fucking freak out about; everyone who I've shown the totoro video too says I WANNIT

so far, i'm gonna try to do a moomin, a mordechai (from regular show), marlys, another totoro... what else?

this could take a month or two.

it's gonna be a side project along with other pieces but could be a fun one.

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action photography!

hey forks, do you/can you make things with lids?

i'm learning now! just getting acquainted with calipers and how all that good stuff works.

ok, cool. if you were in fact interested in taking commissions at some point i have been wanting a shallow, straight-sided dish with a lid for a while now, and would happily pay someone to make that for me.

hm! well, i think my potting partner robin might be able to do it for sure; i'm still a little iffy about doing work on consignment just yet... still got some polish to go.
But hit me via ilx mail and i can connect you!

me: poured hot water into that cup i just made
Robin: What happened
me: glaze cracked under the surface all over!
Robin: Interesting
me: dozens of place inside and out but it didn't break.
Robin: I think I know why
me: not quite thick enough to pick up with boiling water either. :/ why u think
Robin: You did the slip layer after the bisque?
me: no.
Robin: Hm not sure then
me: it's not a bad cup to drink tea out of. right size but you gotta let it cool. u really can't feel the cracks! but holy shit it cracked all over
Robin: Read up on crazing and why it happens
me: i kinda like it better now. looks lived in almost intentional
Robin: It generally does not affect integrity or usability. If u look at anything oxblood in oxidation its usually crazed all over. Those transparent glazes are more likely to.
me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazing
omg i am hearing it crack! it's like little chipping noises
me: it's got to be two things: one is thermic shock but the other thing is weird: because it was doing it when i brought it to pottery remember i said i didn't remember those cracks? they weren't there before, i'm sure of it. so the fucking thing appears to be shifting after it's already fired. but the boiling water is def affecting it. it keeps making PING noises and then there are more cracks. super odd.
Robin: I think it is all the layers that is making that happen. Slip + glaze + glaze all over a diff clay body
me: yah
Robin: Is creating tensions with the thermal shift. You know that chinese and korean pottery traditions cultivated that effect.
me: yeah, but this is less concentrated
Robin: And rubbed ink in to bring out the pattern
me: more like striations than lattice
Robin: Hm ill have to see it
me: this is the nerdiest im exchange ever

i made my first urn with a lid today. will report back.
also working in miniature. learned how to throw off the hump to make tiny lil' bowls. immensely satisfying and rewarding.
I have no immediate work and a lil' bit of cash socked away and a month until work is supposed to resume so i'm spending about twenty to twenty five hours a week in the studio for the past two/next two weeks. Taking on lots of short and long projects and basically practicing practicing practicing

even by my standards this is pretty fucking geeky BUT here is my first go at a "Journey" cup.
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still need to add background, firm up the figure a bit and then put in black and white colored slip, then fire and put in real colors for the glaze.

awesome!